WIP challenge - day 4 check-in!

[littlebutfierce]

Middle of the first week! How are things so far?

Poll #6871 WIP challenge day 4 check-in!

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What kind of fic day are you having today?

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Terrible
1 (6.7%)

Ehhhhh...
4 (26.7%)

All right
8 (53.3%)

Amazing!
2 (13.3%)

And is that better or worse than yesterday?

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Better!
9 (60.0%)

Worse
1 (6.7%)

Exactly the same
5 (33.3%)

What fic-ly things did you do?

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Write
10 (66.7%)

Edit
2 (13.3%)

Research
1 (6.7%)

Send to beta
1 (6.7%)

Procrastinate
5 (33.3%)

Something else I will describe in comments
3 (20.0%)

And my favorite question! In 3 words or less, how are you feeling about the fic?

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And for a discussion topic, how about we talk about research? As usual, the fanfic flamingo has relevant commentary:



[Background — a six piece pie style colour split in three shades of pink. Foreground — the long neck and face of a pink flamingo.

Top text: WAIT, WHAT SHOULD THEY DRINK?

Bottom text: SPEND 7 HOURS RESEARCHING WINE, THEN CUT SCENE]

Does your current fic require any research? If so, want to tell us what about? Where do you tend to find research materials for your fic? Is it difficult to pull yourself out of research to get back to writing, or is research your least favorite part? And how do you organize all your research once you've dug it all up?

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[bay_alexison]

Well I first wrote around 400 words of one fic that has been on my mind for a while (and not part of this challenge, haha) and then around over 600 words of one of my help_japan fic. Overall, got 1000 words accomplished today, woot! :D The problem with the help_japan fic though is I'm having a bit of trouble how to make the conversation flow and I keep changing the dialogue. @_@ Now, to decide whether to have a couple more characters barge in and think over how to end that story. XD

Over the research, haha there are actually times where I could have done the research. For instance, I was doing a fic from a blind person's POV, but for some reason researching blindness hasn't crossed my mind. D: That goes the same with castles when I had to describe one in great detail, LOL.

However, when I do research I would look over stuff for a couple hours. Usually I bookmark some websites and saved them in different folders according to what subject I'm looking at. There are also times I would copy and past the relevant information I needed and put the document in the folder where I also keep my main story, the outline, and the beta notes. I tend to not be that organized with my research though because half the time I would just look over one thing I needed and then get to writing immediately.

[jagnikjen]

1000 words are fantastic, no matter what. Great job!

[littlebutfierce]

1k words is awesome!!

Could you try to just hammer out a first draft, even w/clunky conversation, & then edit the dialogue later? If I'm stuck on something, pressing ahead & writing something crappy to get to the next part sometimes works wonders... b/c sometimes what I end up writing next in the story will illuminate some problem I was having w/the tricky scene & makes it easier to figure out how to handle it. Maybe it would help you?

Yeah, I think researching blindness so you don't fall into any messed-up tropes is generally a good idea, ha.

[bay_alexison]

I think I'll do that when I write the story later tonight. Usually I do that with other stories, but for my help_japan one I'm really unsure how I want the conversation to go. D: Most likely I'll just let the conversation run its course and then fix it up later.

And indeed over the blindness part. I learned my lesson the hard way, LOL. Next time if I want to do a story in a blind person's POV, I'll remind myself to do some research first. *nods*